Catriona (Cate) Sandilands is a professor of environmental humanities/arts and justice in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her areas of research include queer and feminist posthumanities, critical plant studies, Canadian environmental literatures/ ecocriticism, biocultural histories and politics, and public environmental engagement through literature and storytelling.
Her sole-authored and collaboratively edited publications in these fields include the books The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (1999); This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (2004); Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (2010); and Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times (2019).
She has also recently published essays in Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose; What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?; Plant Fever: Towards a Phyto-Centric Design; The Goose; Veer Ecology: Key Words for Ecotheory; ISLE; Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief; Resilience; The Routledge International Handbook on Gender and Environment; GLQ; The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory; and The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. She has served as the President of ASLE, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and of ALECC, the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada.
Cate is currently working on a new book, Plantasmagoria: Botanical Encounters in the (M)Anthropocene, which seeks to develop an embodied, feminist, relational, plant-centric response to current conditions of climate change, neoliberal capitalism, and the escalating profitization of life.